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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Constructive Curmudgeon in Danger of Deletion

It looks like this Google warning about being automatically labeled a "spam blog" is real. However, the link Google sent me does not go to what they say: a review form. Moreover, they say they get "false positives" (they sure did with me!) and will freeze pages that are not in fact spam blogs. Impersonal technology strikes again. There is a grace period and then will delete. Good night! Maybe Obama is after me.

A year ago Google blocked one of my blogs after identifying it as a SPAM blog. I lost access to it for at least a couple of weeks. In the meantime, whenever I attempted to access my blog (http://crosstalking.blogspot.com/) the URL brought me to a dummy page that some guy named Gilbert in Montana had set up. Because of Google's error Gilbert hijacked my URL. So I lost me my URL, and Google would not retrieve it for me. Finally, when I was finally granted access again to my blog, because the URL had been changed permanently, the blog lost its readers.

"Web loggers who are campaigning against Senator Obama's presidential run are accusing Google and Obama supporters of silencing them after their Web logs were marked as spam and their accounts temporarily frozen..."

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Nothing on this blog represents the position of Denver Seminary. I am a Christian, philosopher, teacher, writer, and preacher, who is Professor of Philosophy at Denver Seminary. My most recent of my eleven books is Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (InterVarsity Press, 2011). I have published ten others, including Truth Decay and On Jesus. I direct the Christian Apologetics and Ethics MA program at Denver Seminary.